Green Apartments in Center City

When we renovate individual apartments, we always install:

Throughout the community we use:

CFL bulbs in common areas

High-efficiency fluorescent bulbs in garage

Drought tolerant, native landscaping

Green cleaning products

We’ve also installed bike racks to encourage the use of pedal power.

We actively upgrade our main heating and air conditioning equipment. For instance, we recently installed a Carrier comfort system, which saves energy by backing down boilers and air conditioning on demand. Also, in every newly renovated apartment, we install the latest fan coil units, which have a significant increase in air volume and use less energy to run.

Our new single-stream recycling bins allow everything to be recycled together, which has substantially increased the amount of material that avoids the landfill.

We also practice what we preach in our own offices as well. For instance, company-wide we have switched to filtered rather than bottled water, eliminating truck delivery of bottles, as well as the bottle waste stream itself, and we now only use paper that is made from at least 50% post-consumer recycled content.